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House & Garden 
MOONS’ FOLIAGE 
Makes the Home Beautiful 
ATTRACTIVE as may beyour house,architec- 
l\. turally, it is lacking in its complete home 
satisfaction if not set, gemlike, in clusters of 
Moons’ Evergreens, Decorative Shrubbery, Trees 
Added to the keen personal 
pleasure derived from the 
improved appearance of 
your house and the laying 
out of the planting of your 
grounds is the knowledge 
that MOONS’ trees and 
shruhs planted, return 
many fold the original cost 
for shruhhery* in increased 
property value. 
Unquestionably, there is a 
decided advantage in doing 
business with a Nursery 
that has so extensive a stock 
and so broad an assortment. 
MOONS’ have HardyTrees 
and Plants for every Place 
and Purpose, covering hun¬ 
dreds of acres and varieties 
running into the thousands. 
Each order is filled with- 
freshly dug stock with a 
care in packing that in¬ 
sures success to your pur¬ 
chases. 
Let MOON help you buy 
the proper tree or plant for 
your grounds, advising you 
what will best suit your cli- 
mateandsoil. Butfirstsend 
for our Catalogue No. A-4. 
THE WM. H. MOON COMPANY 
Nurserymen 
Morrisville, Pennsylvania 
PHII.ADELPHIA OFFICE 
21 S. Twelfth Street 
THE MOON NLRSEKY CORP. 
White Plains. New York 
New Flowers You Should Know 
(Continued fi 
ering Beauty or Nice stocks; the 
Camilla-flowering balsam with indi¬ 
vidual flowers 2" in diameter; celosia, 
Pride of Castle Gould, a plant of vig¬ 
orous growth attaining a height of 
some 3' and having immense feathery 
plumes in red, carmine-orange, and 
scarlet, which are produced in the 
greatest abundance until frost; the 
new double-flowering gypsophila or 
Baby’s Breath, with blooms of a 
bright red purple; the new “curled 
and crested’’ zinnias, much more ar¬ 
tistic in type than the old forms; the 
“fringed” or rather lacinated, annual 
pinks, and the remarkable double- 
crowned cosmos which, while not yet 
fixed so that all plants come true 
from seed, is an absolutely new type 
well worthy a trial in every garden, 
as it is fairh- early blooming and 
flowers from seed sown outdoors. 
S'alpiglossis supcrbissimuni is the 
most recent development of this still 
only half-appreciated flower. The 
tufted pansies, or violas, while not 
as large as the pansies usually grown 
for spring flowering, are much more 
satisfactory where they are desired 
for late summer blooming. Seed 
sown in tbe spring will bloom con¬ 
tinually until frost. The flow’crs are 
available in diflFerent shades. 
The following new varieties of 
some of the well-known things are 
marked improvements. Alyosotis 
(Forget-iMe-Not) Ruth Fisher, which 
has the largest flowers; violet Queen 
Alyssum, marigold Legion d'Hon- 
■om page 58) 
neur, very dwarf with striking single 
flowers of bright yellow with crim¬ 
son center; heliotrope Regal, dwarf 
in form but with exceptionally large 
trusses; lobelia Tenuior, already 
mentioned; poppy, Danish Cross, one 
of the most striking and beautiful 
of annual flowers, a brilliant scarlet 
with a silver white cross in the cen¬ 
ter ; and the double blue corn flower 
(Centaurea cyanus), a substantial 
flower of the same glorious color as 
the ordinary single blue. The fine 
new sweet peas are too numerous to 
describe, but among the very best are 
King White, a pure glistening white 
of gigantic size; Fiery Cross, a bril¬ 
liant, glowing red; Yarawa, extra 
large with many double flowers of a 
bright rose pink; and a delicate lilac. 
Among the new annual vines. Car¬ 
dinal Climber is undoubtedly the most 
important. Everyone who has not 
grown this should give it a trial this 
year. In addition to this, there are 
among others, a double flowering 
morning-glort'; a new hardy sweet 
pea, two or three weeks earlier than 
the standard varieties and, therefore, 
a boon to the northern States; and a 
new early flowering blue moon-flow¬ 
er. Last, but not least, there is the 
Brazilian morning-glory, I p o m e a 
setosa, which is the best of all vines 
for covering a large space in a short 
time. It has leaves nearly 1' across 
and hears beautiful light pink flowers 
which are followed by ornamental 
seed pods decidedly worth-while. 
The Native Architecture of Bermuda 
(Continued from page 16) 
so soft that one is almost justified 
in calling it plastic. It is sawn from 
the quarries in blocks of any desired 
shape and size, is dressed with a hatch¬ 
et and can readily be carved with a 
knife. Although the surface hardens 
to some extent upon exposure to the 
weather, it is very porous and, both 
for preservation and the exclusion of 
damp, the walls are washed with 
coats of cement wash or given a thin 
jacket of stucco. This same rock 
coral is used for the roofs. It is ex¬ 
ceedingly light and is cut into tiles 
about an inch thick. These stone 
tiles — “slates” the Bermudians call 
them — are then laid on stringers 
placed on cedar rafters, the joints 
plastered and the surface w'ashed 
with a cement wash to make it 
weather-tight. In method of struc¬ 
ture and character of line Bermuda 
roofs are not unlike the stone tile 
roofs of the Cotswolds. By legal re¬ 
quirement they are whitewashed 
every year to ensure the purity of the 
w-ater supply which is dependent upon 
the rain water conveyed to cisterns. 
Cedar is the staple wood of Ber¬ 
muda as oak was the staple wood of 
England. The Bermuda cedar is 
really a species of juniper but is ex¬ 
actly like red cedar in appearance 
and, as the Bermudians themselves 
have always called it cedar, it would 
be foolish'to call it anything else. It 
is plentiful and of large growth and, 
in the older houses, was used for 
rafters, joists, floors^and all the_ in¬ 
terior w'oodwork. Nowadays, since 
large trees are scarcer, other kinds of 
lumber and milhvork are imported 
from the States. The old cedar wood¬ 
work is exceedingly beautiful and 
combines in appearance many of the 
qualities of old oak and mahogany. 
One of the earliest type of Ber¬ 
muda house is shown in the illustra¬ 
tion of “Inwood,” built in 1686. A 
glance is sufficient to show its Eng¬ 
lish antecedents. Points of interest 
that immediately strike the eye are 
the ovolo string course girdling the 
structure between the first and sec¬ 
ond floors; the arched and corbelled 
dripstones—“eyebrows” is their local 
name — above the four windows at 
one gable end; tbe splayed and shelv¬ 
ing dripstone above tbe window near¬ 
est the kitchen door; finally, the 
chimne\'S with gracefully moulded 
tops, spreading their length in the 
same direction with the ridgepole in¬ 
stead of transversely to it. The arched 
dripstones and the slender chimnej'S 
with moulded tops are Tudor sur¬ 
vivals with Gothic antecedents. 
An Elizabethan Prototype 
The general mass of the house sug¬ 
gests a small Elizabethan manor 
house prototype. The resemblance 
would be quite convincing were there 
ranges of leaded casement windows 
along the sides instead of upright 
windows with double-hung sashes. 
There is record of another similar 
house, coeval with “Inwood,” where 
just such leaded casements were re¬ 
moved and windows like those of 
“Inwood” substituted for them, sO’ 
that it is not at all impossible that 
“Inwood,” too, may have had leaded 
casements once upon a time. 
It should be noted that “Inwood” 
and some other contemporary houses 
are cruciform in plan. This scheme 
was adopted to ensure the greatest 
possible exposure, and consequently 
the greatest air circulation, to all the 
rooms, a number of them having win¬ 
dows on three sides. 
(Continued on page 62) 
